My Baby Buck

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Started coparenting a baby with my best friend, and I think I’m in love with him. What do I do?

I (M 54) recently became the father of a baby girl through kinship adoption. While I thought I could raise her on my own, it became apparent very quickly that I could not. It turns out knowing how to care for a baby’s health is a fraction of the things you need to know. One night in a fit of desperation (after 3 hours of her nonstop crying no matter what I tried) I called my best friend of 20+ years (M 50). He came over immediately, got the baby to settle down, and then just kind of never left. Now it’s been 2 months and we take her to the park together, switch off feeding/changing/and checking on her during the night, and send photo updates to each other constantly.

The other day, I walked into the kitchen and he was wearing a shirt covered in spit up and had her up against his shoulder. I could hear him singing Dancing in the Dark to her while he swayed her back and forth, and I just froze. When he looked up and noticed me leaning against the doorframe he smiled at me… and it just hit me. I’m in love with him.

Now I don’t know what to do or how to act around him.

Am I just imaging things because he’s helping me take care of a baby? Or can you really fall in love with someone after knowing them for decades?

this is so silly.

Curious pebble (2/?)

Curious pebble (1/?)

there Rocky is, doing his thing, and so is Grace, busy busy busy. Grace sits back and stretches, a bit distracted as he usually is, gets up and then he turns and SPOOKS SO BADLY!! WHAT WHAT IS IT??? Rocky hears nothing what's going on???

"Oh nothing, I thought I saw someone but, it's just a shadow."

and Rocky doesn't get it, at. all. Grace says this or that thing kind of looks like a person, or that he thought the hanging clothes was someone, but Rocky can't understand for the life of him. shadows have no shape, no depth, that jacket is inert, has no breathing or heartbeat.

shane laying awake next to him: what about a pizza party

ilya: what

shane: what about doing a pizza party when they score high

ilya: what is pizza party

shane: it's like. this party you get in school when your class does well. you eat pizza and don't have to do any work and everybody looks forward to it

And I propose.

Since Eridian brains seem better with memory and such.

(I wonder if, because their brains are basically a big crystal, the reason their memory is so good is because it literally gets carved into the crystal so they can revisit it whenever with no problem.)

Imagine they manage to basically transfer Grace's consciousness into crystal brain into Eridian body.

and suddenly Grace is one of the smartest bitches on Erid (not that he wasn't already smart, or that the Eridians didn't already view him as smart, but now they have an easier way to comprehend how smart he is) because he no longer has the feeble flaws of a human brain with it's weird memory and stuff.

Rocky when Grace is human: This is my very smart, squishy alien friend.